Things are cooking along here at Five Rivers, and just two weeks into 2012.
North by 2000+ by H.A. Hargreaves is now available for preorder in print from Amazon and Barnes and Noble and available from them and Smashwords immediately in digital format. It is soon to be available through Apple and Kobo. It can also be ordered directly through Five Rivers.
Discounts are available for class sets for schools and universities, as well as to indie bookstores wishing to circumnavigate the distribution chain. Email us for more information.
Review copies are now also available.
The collection officially releases March 1, 2012.
H.A. Hargreaves is one of Canada’s remarkable, one might even say legendary, speculative fiction writers. He is a retired professor of English, formerly at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), and was twice nominated (1982 and 1983) for the Lifetime Contributions category in the Prix Auroras. His collection of short stories, North by 2000, in its time received wide critical acclaim from both peers and periodicals.
Five Rivers is pleased to announce the rebirth of that remarkable collection of short stories by Hargreaves. This new edition, entitled North by 2000+, features not only all the quintessentially Canadian stories of the first edition, but five additional published short works, along with a foreword from the author, and an introduction by Dr. Robert Runte.
Growing Up Bronx also by H.A. Hargreaves, is now waiting upon proofed galleys, which should land here sometime next week, and is scheduled for release April 1, 2012.
Growing Up Bronx, allows readers a poignant insight into the mentors and influences that shaped one of Canada’s brilliant writers of science fiction. Hargreaves takes you through the Great Depression and WWII, in his native Bronx neighbourhood, into the lives of shopkeepers and family, heartache and triumph.
This is definitely a must-have collection of short stories to complete the canon of H.A. Hargreaves’ work.
John Lennon: a biography, by Nate Hendley, is now in Barb Geiger’s capable editorial hands, and scheduled for release September 1, 2012.
The celebrated singer and pop-culture sage is profiled in an objective, fact-based account of John Lennon’s rocky ride to glory.
As always Nate Hendley brings to his biographies the human side of the figures he examines, lifting them off the pages of history.
Butterfly Stitching author, Shermin Nahid Kruse touched base with us last week, updating us on her progress revising her debut novel. How she’s managing to juggle her career as a partner in a major law firm, a mom of twins, as well as author is quite remarkable. Sher assures us, however, she’s steadily polishing the story.
The novel is an honest, at times heart-breaking, window into the world of Samira, an Iranian woman caught in the contradictory and eventually revolutionary world of 1979 Tehran. Ultimately a very female novel, we feel very strongly this story will resonate not only with women on a global scale, but people who struggle daily for balance and sanity in an often radical and repressive world.
We originally hoped for a release in March 2012; however, given the demands on Sher’s time, we’re looking to a release later this year. It will be well worth the wait.
Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, by Michell Plested, is now back in Mike’s hands for a final polish after being edited by Robert Runte and Amy Bright. We can’t begin to express how excited we are about this hilarious and touching YA novel. A debut novel it may be, but we have very great expectations about this book, and the entire Mik Murdoch series.
In a nutshell we can tell you this is a delightful and truly Canadian tale of a 12 year old boy’s quest to protect his prairie town of Cranberry Flats, and in his search to acquire super-powers finds the most awesome power of all lies within his own inherent integrity.
Think of W.O. Mitchell meets Spiderman
We’re hoping for a release in late summer, maybe even in time for When Words Collide.
The Insistence of Memory by YA author Simon Rose, is in the revision and editorial process.
The novel takes readers into the schemes and subterfuge of the Cold War era, through the time-slipping of Max, who finds out an imaginary childhood friend was more than an overactive imagination.
We’re hoping for a release sometime late in 2012.
88 author, Michael Fletcher, popped off an email to editor Barb Geiger regarding his progress on the revision of his debut SF novel. Apparently he’s slashing and refining like a madman, and is on schedule to have the revision back to Barb by the close of April. Another debut novel, this one is a dark forray into a dystopian world where children are harvested for the quality of their brains.
We’re hoping for a release late summer to early fall 2012.
Caliban by Lorina Stephens is currently in revision and slated for editing by the close of January. This is a speculative fiction novella, dealing with the concepts of reality and beauty, through the voice of an alien creature known as Tine. Several agents and diplomats have gone missing on the planet of Edain, a bastion of the arts and home of the legendary Dreamweavers. Tine is sent in to investigate, and while doing so uncovers an abomination so vast it threatens reality itself.
The novella is slated for release late summer to early fall of 2012.
